Post by Arwen17 on Oct 13, 2008 5:04:11 GMT 9.5
I wrote this poem today for my English class and I decided to use Queen Mab.
These were the rules that were set down by my English teacher.
1. Minimum of 14 lines.
2. No more than 8 words and no fewer than 4 words per line.
3. Must have multiple stanzas.
4. No stanza may have the same number of lines.
5. Poem must rhyme.
6. The poem must include all of the following words: pugnacious, watershed, loganberry, dorsal, green-green, braiding, eloquent, wearied, proudly, beneath and orbit.
7. The poem must include a simile involving a donut.
8. The poem must take place in Autumn between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m.
9. The poem should be in remembrance of something lost.
10. The title should include 2 verbs and 1 prepositional phrase and should be in the form of a question.
Poems that bend these rules in any way don't count.
Here's my poem:
Why does Magic always disappear under the hill and then never come back?
Queen Mab ruled in years past
from faerie land usurpassed
But when Her power began to wane
mortal disbelief was Her bane
She became quite pugnacious
and Merlin believed, exceptionally rapacious
Proudly, with dorsal wings, She carried on
and continued, which Merlin frowned upon
Her desire to survive beneath the Hollow Hills
long She fought, but Her wearied will
could not continue braiding the threads of fate
Merlin by the loganberry watershed could not await
the mourning of mortals for Her terrible state
Green-green of Land Under Hill was lost
the loss of magic is the high cost
that Merlin must now bear
with eloquent Queen Mab the Fair
The donut-shaped round table
where Arthur's knights played out the fable
of the battle between Merlin and Mab
at the 6th hour, I might add
Since that autumn day, death is swift
there will always be a rift
between mortal and fae
because mortals all pray
that the orbit of time
will not always mime
the punishment of Queen Mab's crime.
These were the rules that were set down by my English teacher.
1. Minimum of 14 lines.
2. No more than 8 words and no fewer than 4 words per line.
3. Must have multiple stanzas.
4. No stanza may have the same number of lines.
5. Poem must rhyme.
6. The poem must include all of the following words: pugnacious, watershed, loganberry, dorsal, green-green, braiding, eloquent, wearied, proudly, beneath and orbit.
7. The poem must include a simile involving a donut.
8. The poem must take place in Autumn between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m.
9. The poem should be in remembrance of something lost.
10. The title should include 2 verbs and 1 prepositional phrase and should be in the form of a question.
Poems that bend these rules in any way don't count.
Here's my poem:
Why does Magic always disappear under the hill and then never come back?
Queen Mab ruled in years past
from faerie land usurpassed
But when Her power began to wane
mortal disbelief was Her bane
She became quite pugnacious
and Merlin believed, exceptionally rapacious
Proudly, with dorsal wings, She carried on
and continued, which Merlin frowned upon
Her desire to survive beneath the Hollow Hills
long She fought, but Her wearied will
could not continue braiding the threads of fate
Merlin by the loganberry watershed could not await
the mourning of mortals for Her terrible state
Green-green of Land Under Hill was lost
the loss of magic is the high cost
that Merlin must now bear
with eloquent Queen Mab the Fair
The donut-shaped round table
where Arthur's knights played out the fable
of the battle between Merlin and Mab
at the 6th hour, I might add
Since that autumn day, death is swift
there will always be a rift
between mortal and fae
because mortals all pray
that the orbit of time
will not always mime
the punishment of Queen Mab's crime.
how did you go with it ?
